Ted Lasso

I can't believe we're seriously arguing Jake Levers quality as a player. he was one of the best intercept defenders in his first two years, something not many players do, he's got all the attributes to be a future AFL captain and a champion of the club and he's coming off a serious injury. He and Steven May with a full pre season are going to play some great footy next year an make a lot of doubters eat their words in my opinion. FWIW i think he played well in the 2017 grand final and was one of the few players from the crows who could hold his head high, a very good effort considering the crows were treating him like rubbish and he was heading tot he exit.

One of the big concerns i have is now on field i feel like with no Lewis, Vince and Jones likely to spend time at casey this year, we've given ourselves a void of onfield leadership.

This, combined with us staring down the barrel of a fairly significant financial loss this year, as well as the high likelyhood of staff member turn over as a result of the review. I suspect we'll be asking for funding to help keep the facility plan in motion, as well as exemption from any financial penalty for breaching the soft cap on staff if we turn over a good number of them.

There was talk his old man might be in line for the CEO position at the dockers which is why people i think thought Gus might head over that way. though it now sounds like he will be taking up a position at NORF as the CEO there so i don't think the temptation to go to Perth would be huge.

No, i think we would get band 3 compensation, he'd be offered minimum 3 years on probably 600k because they need to fill their cap, he's captain of the club and our ladder position. we'd probably argue for band 2 and get pushed back to 3 which would be the pick immediately after our second rounder.

Anyone else think there would be a temptation to nudge Nathan Jones out the door and up to the Suns? we'd likely get pick 21 as compensation and he's likely got one year of average football left in him, he's been a champion of the club but part of me feels this is the type of decision a really good club would take the emotion out of.

I suspect what we are asking for is support to pay out and make changes in the football department based on what the review shows. i think this would include Simon Goodwin incase we don't move up next year and a change needs to be made

to explain what i heard was the Suns want more than just the Blues first pick, and he was the steak knives they had asked for.

I think Brayshaws form did start to trend upwards in the last 3-4 games with more centre bounce time. it's pretty clear that is his best position.

Thoughts on Zac Fisher? i think he's got a lot of the attributes we're looking for. i've heard the Blues are potentially open to including him in trade packages to land jack Martin. i wonder if we could get involved in that and get him to the club.

Kerr from the blues officially delisted, this is someone i would consider as a delisted free agent or a rookie, he's big and strong, has a good set of hands and has a real presence around the ground. considering he'd come for nothing i think we could do a lot worse than roll the dice on this kid for a year or 2

GCS entire argument to get pick 2 is so they can draft Anderson at 2 and help to retain both as they're good friends, they're not trading pick 2. I still think Ben King is gettable. but he'd likely cost us pick 3 which personally i'd be willing to pay. i'd say he's better than anyone in the draft pool besides the top 2.

I suspect Bell may try and settle the Langdon deal early and work hard on getting maximum value for Hill. i think the Saints might get screwed there. pick 20 for Langdon seems a win win for both clubs

It's interesting because if it's a question of who we'd take pick 3 vs two other picks i think we'd take Lachie Ash early because he fits exactly what we need. but he may well be there anyway if we downgraded to pick 7ish and then we'd get another pick to go with it.

My personal opinion was that Rockliff was the worst captain in the AFL and when he moved to Port that mantle was handed to TEX. you just have to look at the way he handled the Lever situation to see he's a very immature leader. likes throwing his weight around but doesn't know when or how to do it, and that filters into his game

I wonder what would be needed trade wise to get him?

No, because they're just that, rumours

I'd be backing in Weid and McDonald. and hoping for better kicks inside 50 and better forward craft. the realistic outside key forward that i would be chasing is Ben King who i think genuinely wants to come back to vic but the Suns probably won't let him go. but if they said they'd trade him for pick 3 i'd do that for sure.

I mean personally i think Max Gawn and Tom McDonald are the two best leaders at the club, neither is captain. I think we're still operating on sentiment and emotion a little bit too much. i think Hawthorn would delist Jones and trade Viney. we don't have the courage to do so, rightly or wrongly. from the outside it looks like we maybe have too many assistant coaches, and a few that have been there too long but the messages clearly aren't getting through to the players. what's really alarming for me though is inability to do the absolute basics of the game, like how often do you see Melbourne hitting lead up forwards? i'm not sure of the stats but i'd imagine we're towards the bottom of the list for that.

Not sure an incentives based contract for Nathan is as much rolling over as it is common sense and good list management. if he finds form in a new role and plays all year it'll help the team a lot, if he doesn't he will play in the 2's and make a lot less. it's just saying if you want to keep going, you're no longer safe prove you're best 22 week in, week out and it likely won't be in your best role

I feel pretty strongly that we are going to come to the stage where we have to trade one of the three big inside bulls, Viney, Brayshaw, Oliver and in my opinion Viney is the most one dimensional of the three.

Hard to blame him based on some of the rumors about what's happened this year, if even half of them are true it paints a bleak picture.

I don't mind the review being internal only, i just don't think Mahoney is the right person, not because i don't rate him but i consider him a part of the football department. i think it should fall on the CEO, and i wouldn't mind the club asking Roosy to come back as an outside set of eyes to have a look as well. though i think some would think that's inappropriate which is fair enough. from the outside the questions i'd want to answer are Does Simon Goodwin listen to his assistants, does he delegate well enough, what's his relationship like with the players, is it too "Matey"? do we have the right leadership model with the co captains we currently have, or do we need a change in that space, i suspect Jones time as captain is probably done, and i wouldn't mind letting Viney focus on becoming the best player he can be and staying injury free without the added pressure. especially with a leader like Max at the absolute top of his game. does the current game plan stack up with the game styles that are pushing deep into finals, i know we made a prelim but will it continue to take us deep moving forward, i'd suggest we don't value defense enough to win a premiership but that's just my opinion. I think a lot of the fitness/injury questions are moot with the signing of Burgess. but maybe there are question marks around the attitude and commitment of the players that didn't come back ready for pre season in good condition.

I have no knowledge of if he will, or if he even wants to but he seems like he'd be the sort of person who'd be a great person to keep around in a coaching capacity. with rumours Max Rooke may be leaving he would surely be a good fit to fill the development coaching role that opens up?

Keith is definitely the type of player who could play up forward so i wouldn't be surprised if the plan is to bring him in and let him and May swing to either end depending on match ups